# Question about the famous this.\_lockroot=true;

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-the-famous-this--lockroot-true/210608>\
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**Created:** [December 20, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-the-famous-this--lockroot-true/210608 "2006-12-20T11:02:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![rosanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e0b2c6/32.png) [@rosanna](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rosanna)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/question-about-the-famous-this--lockroot-true/210608/1 "2006-12-20T11:02:40Z")

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Hi everybody  
I try to load a swf through a Loadmovie function. the swf loads but without animation. After research, I found out that to get the animation I have to put the following  
[COLOR=blue]this.\_lockroot=true; [/COLOR][COLOR=black]in the first frame of the main stage. But on this frame I already have [/COLOR]

[COLOR=green]stop();  
\_root.captions.\_visible = 0;[/COLOR]  
[COLOR=#008000][COLOR=black]When I add[/COLOR] [/COLOR][COLOR=black]the this.\_lockroot=true, nothing happen, my swf is still without animation.[/COLOR]  
I am not an expert… can sbdy help?  
Thanks